Permaculture and climate change adaptation : inspiring ecological, social, economic and cultural responses for resilience and transformation /
Permaculture is a design system for sustainable human habitats and basis of a worldwide citizen-led movement. This book seeks to bring this expertise from the margins into the centre of policy debates and mainstream action
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Hampshire, United Kingdom :
Permanent Publications,
c2015
Hampshire, United Kingdom : [2015] |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- Climate change: from adaptation to transformation
- Permaculture and climate change adaptation
- Cultivating a global climate change action research community
- 3. Perspectives, local and global
- Indigenous peoples, climate change, and permaculture
- Global perspectives: biomes, planetary boundaries and sustainable developmental goals
- 4. Strategies
- Water regulation and management
- Soil protection and restoration
- Revegetation
- Agrodiversity
- Agroecology
- Creation and use of microclimates
- Bioclimatic building
- Energy descent
- Bioregionalism and economic localisation
- Regenerative enterprise
- Commons-based governance
- Social technologies
- Conflict transformation
- Personal resilience
- Changing worldviews
- Indigenous and local knowledge
- Popular education
- 5. Future steps
- Permaculture and climate policy
- Climate change statement and action plan
- Endnotes